Marmelo Kitchen

Christmas 2020

In these strange and challenging times within retail, businesses have had to look at things in a very different way, and think out of the box. Marmelo Kitchen in Francis Rd in Leyton is one of those businesses. With the restaurant being quite a small space it would have been difficult to open up after lockdown with social distancing restrictions in place and still exist as a working restaurant. Therefore they have made amazing and forward-thinking changes and thereby still maintaining their close links with feeding the local community. The shop was fitted out with new shelves and racking and the most glorious range of food bought in. Their mouth watering Christmas offer was varied and luxurious and I wanted to reflect that by displaying a cornucopia of their Christmas gift food on a large table in the middle of store. Piling up traditional authentic wicker ‘Marmlelo’ stamped hampers in the middle of the table, with gift food ideas tumbling out and forming neat rows of product radiating from this focal point. We used a huge real pine garland adorned with pea lights in this central display and I worked with a local sign-writer Mia Warner to get her to re-create this garland on the store windows. She beautifully illustrated them in white adding items of gift food available within the store such as mince pies, bottles of wine and fresh bread.

Barbara Chapman FBDS Visual Creative Consultant & Stylist Associate VM lecturer at LCCA 07718334337 www.freelancevisualcreativeconsultant.co.uk